Mockers "Emperor’s New Clothes" 1987

...At the end of 1986 the band returned to Auckland’s Mandrill Studios to record, but this time with expat super-producer Peter Dawkins who had masterminded massive hits for Dragon and Mi-Sex amongst others. The first single ‘Far From The Madding Crowd’ was released January 1987 and publicity photos for the band showed them as a four-piece, there’s no replacement for Steve in the picture...
...The new album Emperor’s New Clothes was released March 1987 and for the national tour they added Steve Bush on drums. The eight-week March to May tour consisted of 50 gigs plus up to 40 lunchtime school concerts.
With the appetite for 1980s pop fading and American heavy rock taking over, Andrew Fagan and guitarist Brett Adams headed for London, where Fagan, with partner Karyn Hay lived on a riverboat, got familiar with the British music business, raised a family and continued to write in a stimulating new environment.
In 1993 Andrew Fagan returned to New Zealand to record the solo album Blisters at Revolver Studio. The single ‘Jerusalem’ gained some airplay but only charted at No.39. Fagan was on the cover of the December 1993 Rip It Up magazine but the album, released by Sony, did not rekindle the Mockers mania of the 1980s. A Mockers compilation released in 2007 spent three weeks in the Top 40. - Murray Cammick & audioculture
trax:
1 Far From The Madding Crowd 2 Shield Yourself 3 Sleeping Through My Storm 4 What We've Missed 5 Love Don't Break Promises 6 Boring Brigade 7 Age Of Make Believe (Stop Crying) 8 Take Back Your Tears 9 Come Closer Now 10 So Cold In Here (Escaping) 11 My Atonement
…served by Gaius…